This New Mannequin Could Change Fashion Forever

Plus-size dressing is about to get a lot more fashionable, thanks to two fashion design students from Cornell. While creating a line of clothing for curvy girls, they couldn't find a proper dress form to design against, so they created one themselves. They decided on a size-24 mannequin prototype after analyzing hundreds of three-dimensional body scans of women.

"A lot of the clothes [for plus-size women] are really just sized up from smaller proportions, which fit really strangely," said student Laura Zwanziger. "Plus-size women feel alienated from the fashion industry."

Plus-size dressing has been a hot topic during the past few weeks, and I've shared a few of the biggest headlines with you, including H&M's cool new line of swimsuits, and on the flip side of things, Abercrombie & Fitch's decision to stand by its policy of not making clothing that is bigger than a size large for women.

Laura added, "Issues of health aside, we're all different body shapes and body proportions. Each person deserves to have clothing designed for them as they are, not as they relate to some abstract industry shape."

__Which of your favorite fashion designers do you hope take note of this new mannequin? Are you going to scoop up those adorable swimsuits from H&M?